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A
memorial stone to novelist and poet D.H. Lawrence was unveiled
in Poets' Corner Westminster Abbey on 16th November 1985. It
was presented by the D.H. Lawrence Society. The black granite
stone, designed by David Parsley, is inlaid with white
letters. At the top is a phoenix arising from a log fire, the
flames shown in red.
The Latin, of the inscription, is translated as "I am a man".
It adjoins memorials to Byron and Lewis Carroll.
He was born in Eastwood, son of a coal miner. His first novel
The White Peacock appeared while he was working as a teacher.
In 1912 he went to live abroad with his wife Frieda Weekley
(nee Richthofen). Sons and Lovers was written in 1913 and his
work The Rainbow was banned as immoral. He also wrote plays
and essays. In the 1920s he lived in Mexico and New Mexico. He
died in Vence in France. He was later re-buried in Taos, New
Mexico.
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